"development laboratory in Menlo Park was the first of its kind in the world. On October 22, 1879, Thomas Edison tested a bamboo filament which lasted over 30 hours, which was used to create the first successful incandescent light bulb. This accomplishment followed Edison's testing of over a thousand filaments in six months. 3 years earlier, Thomas Edison tested his wax and tinfoil phonograph by recording and playing ""Mary Had a Little Lamb."" Thomas Edison improved Alexander Graham Bell's telephone using carbon. In addition, he invented an electric train and tested it on a track built around his laboratory, now"
"part."" The initial words spoken into the phonograph were Edison's recital of ""Mary Had a Little Lamb"", the first instance of recorded verse. In 1878, a demonstration at the Royal Institution in Britain included ""Hey Diddle Diddle, the Cat and the Fiddle"" and a line of Tennyson's poetry thus establishing from the very beginning of the technology its association with spoken literature. Many short, spoken word recordings were sold on cylinder in the late 1800s and early 1900s, however the round cylinders were limited to about 4 minutes each making books impractical; flat platters increased to 12 minutes but this"
"Sullivan's ""The Lost Chord,"" one of the first recordings of music ever made. A series of parties followed, introducing the phonograph to members of society at the so-called ""Little Menlo"" in London. Sullivan was invited to one of these on October 5, 1888. After dinner, he recorded a speech to be sent to Thomas Edison, saying, in part: These recordings were discovered in the Edison Library in New Jersey in the 1950s. <poem> Seated one day at the organ, I was weary and ill at ease, And my fingers wandered idly Over the noisy keys. I know not what I"
"Five Childhood Lyrics Five Childhood Lyrics is a choral composition by John Rutter, who set five texts, poems and nursery rhymes, for four vocal parts (SATB with some divisi) a cappella. Rutter composed the work for the London Concord Singers who first performed them in 1973. The five movements are: The first song is based on ""Monday's Child"", a fortune-telling song and nursery rhyme. The text of the second song is ""The Owl and the Pussycat"", a nonsense-poem by Edward Lear published in 1871. The third song is based on a poem, """", by Robert Louis Stevenson. The text for"
"supposedly among the artifacts kept by Thomas Edison. According to FirstSounds.org, these stories are variations of a myth that seems to have first appeared in print in a 1969 book about antique collecting, in which it is explicitly categorized as a legend and dismissed as based on ""garbled accounts"". There is no solid evidence that such a recording ever existed. The most nearly similar artifact known to have been kept by Edison was a recording of the voice of President Rutherford B. Hayes, captured as a groove indented into a sheet of tinfoil when Edison demonstrated his newly-invented phonograph to"
"collector James William Elliott in his ""National Nursery Rhymes and Nursery Songs"". The following additional verses are often added to the rhyme: The earliest record of this rhyme is in a manuscript of around 1805, which contains only the first verse. There are references to a children's game called ""bo-peep"", from the 16th century, including one in Shakespeare's ""King Lear"" (Act I Scene iv), for which ""bo-peep"" is thought to refer to the children's game of peek-a-boo, but there's no evidence that the rhyme existed earlier than the 18th century. The additional verses are first recorded in the earliest printed"
"15-stanza poem that rambled through a variety of adventures involving not only the egg but also Mother Goose's son Jack. There exists an illustrated chapbook omitting their opening stanza that dates from the 1820s and another version was recorded by J. O. Halliwell in his ""The Nursery Rhymes of England"" (1842). Other shorter versions were also recorded later. All of them, however, were dependent on a very successful pantomime first performed in 1806, and it is only by reference to its script that the unexplained gaps in the poem's narration are made clear. The pantomime was the work of Thomas"
"Riley recorded readings of several of his poems for the phonograph during the early twentieth century. Only four of the readings were ever released to the public; one was ""Little Orphant Annie"". Written in nineteenth century Hoosier dialect, the words can be difficult to read in modern times; however, its style helped feed its popularity at the time of its composition. Riley achieved fame not just for writing poetry, but also from his readings. Like most of his poetry, ""Little Orphant Annie"" was written to achieve the best effect when read aloud. The poem consists of four stanzas, each with"
"높이높이 날아라 우리 비행기 Korean romanization Tteotda tteotda bihaenggi nalara nalara nopinopi nalara oori bihaenggi </poem> The rhyme was the first audio recorded by Thomas Edison on his newly invented phonograph in 1877. It was the first instance of recorded verse. In 1927, Edison reenacted the recording, which still survives. The earliest recording (1878) was retrieved by 3D imaging equipment in 2012. Blues musicians Buddy Guy and Stevie Ray Vaughan both recorded the song: Guy composing his own bluesy version of the song for his album ""A Man and the Blues"" in 1968 and Vaughan covering Guy's version in his"
"had created the first industrial laboratory concerned with creating knowledge and then controlling its application. Edison's name is registered on 1,093 patents. Edison began his career as an inventor in Newark, New Jersey, with the automatic repeater and his other improved telegraphic devices, but the invention that first gained him wider notice was the phonograph in 1877. This accomplishment was so unexpected by the public at large as to appear almost magical. Edison became known as ""The Wizard of Menlo Park,"" New Jersey. His first phonograph recorded on tinfoil around a grooved cylinder. Despite its limited sound quality and that"
"Edison's Phonograph Doll Edison's Phonograph Doll is a children's toy doll developed by the Edison Phonograph Toy Manufacturing Company (founded by William W. Jacques and Lowell Briggs in 1887) introduced in 1890. The original doll was invented by Thomas Edison in 1877. The 22-inch doll featured a removable phonograph that played a single nursery rhyme. Although it had spent several years in experimentation and development, the Edison Talking Doll was a sales failure, and was only marketed for a few short weeks in early 1890. You had to crank a handle each time for it to play. Also, the ring-shaped"
"and a flowing melody"". A 2000 article in ""The Musical Times"" by Nigel Burton noted the resurgence of Sullivan's reputation beyond the comic operas: On 14 August 1888 George Gouraud introduced Thomas Edison's phonograph to London in a press conference, including the playing of a piano and cornet recording of Sullivan's ""The Lost Chord"", one of the first recordings of music ever made. At a party on 5 October 1888 given to demonstrate the technology, Sullivan recorded a speech to be sent to Edison, saying, in part: ""I am astonished and somewhat terrified at the result of this evening's experiments:"
"repertoire provided continuity to the music most closely associated with the instrument’s origins and early societal role. On 23 April 23 1892, Bessie Mecklem ""produced twelve Edison wax cylinders of saxophone solos with piano accompaniment. . . . The titles [she] rendered, probably several times each, were 'Ave Maria,' 'Sweet Lullaby Waltz,' 'Eugenia—Waltz Song,' 'Nightingale Song,' 'Easter Song,' 'Love’s Old Sweet Song,' 'Christmas Song,' 'Grand Fantasie,' 'Dreaming,' 'Afterwards,' 'In Old Madrid,' and 'Palm Branches'—mostly slow-paced and comparatively simple numbers."" Although Mecklem was long thought to be the first saxophone soloist to make a phonograph record, ""Edward A. Lefebre recorded for"
"ornamental design for up to a 14-year period. As in most patents, the inventions he described were improvements over prior art. The phonograph patent, in contrast, was unprecedented as describing the first device to record and reproduce sounds. In just over a decade, Edison's Menlo Park laboratory had expanded to occupy two city blocks. Edison said he wanted the lab to have ""a stock of almost every conceivable material"". A newspaper article printed in 1887 reveals the seriousness of his claim, stating the lab contained ""eight thousand kinds of chemicals, every kind of screw made, every size of needle, every"
"singing and speech made by Scott in 1860 were played back as sound for the first time in 2008. Along with a tuning fork tone and unintelligible snippets recorded as early as 1857, these are the earliest known recordings of sound. In 1877, Thomas Edison invented the phonograph. Unlike the phonautograph, it could both record and reproduce sound. Despite the similarity of name, there is no documentary evidence that Edison's phonograph was based on Scott's phonautograph. Edison first tried recording sound on a wax-impregnated paper tape, with the idea of creating a ""telephone repeater"" analogous to the telegraph repeater he"
"age 19 in 1879, William Dickson wrote a letter to American inventor and entrepreneur Thomas Edison seeking employment. He was turned down. That same year Dickson, his mother, and two sisters moved from Britain to Virginia. In 1883 he was finally hired to work at Edison's laboratory in Menlo Park, New Jersey. In 1888, Edison conceived of a device that would do ""for the Eye what the phonograph does for the Ear"". In October, Edison filed a preliminary claim, known as a caveat, with the United States Patent and Trademark Office; outlining his plans for the device. In March 1889,"
"in the 1920s, both technically and in the popularity of its artists, and halted production of recordings in 1929. Thomas A. Edison invented the phonograph, the first device for recording and playing back sound, in 1877. After patenting the invention and benefiting from the publicity and acclaim it received, Edison and his laboratory turned their attention to the commercial development of electric lighting, playing no further role in the development of the phonograph for nearly a decade. Edison's original phonograph recorded on sheets of tinfoil and was little more than a crude curiosity, although one that fascinated much of the"
"part of the nursery rhyme. Early versions took the form: By the early 20th century this had been modified in some collections, such as L. E. Walter's, ""Mother Goose's Nursery Rhymes"" (London, 1919) to: A third verse, sometimes added to the rhyme, was first recorded in a 19th-century chapbook and took Twentieth-century versions of this verse include: As presented above and as presented in the accompanying published images, the rhyme is made up of six-line stanzas with a rhyming scheme of ""aabccb"" and a trochaic rhythm (with the stress falling on the first of a pair of syllables). Alternatively, if"
"a New York newspaper and the Scientific American in November 1877. Thomas A. Edison had announced the invention of his ""phonograph"" saying ""the object was to record telephone messages and transmit them again by telephone."" Edison applied for a U.S. patent in December 1877 and shortly thereafter demonstrated the machine to publishers, the U.S. congress and President Hayes, recording and playing ""Mary had a little lamb... "" and ""there was a little girl who had a little curl... "" and other ditties popular at the time. In an article outlining his own ideas of the future usefulness of his machine"
"eventually rich phonographic library he had foreseen. He had died in 1888 at the age of 45. Thomas Alva Edison conceived the principle of recording and reproducing sound between May and July 1877 as a byproduct of his efforts to ""play back"" recorded telegraph messages and to automate speech sounds for transmission by telephone. He announced his invention of the first ""phonograph"", a device for recording and replaying sound, on November 21, 1877 (early reports appear in Scientific American and several newspapers in the beginning of November, and an even earlier announcement of Edison working on a 'talking-machine' can be"
"Early classical guitar recordings This article is about early classical guitar recordings. One of the earliest guitar sound recordings was from 1861, before Edison invented the phonograph. It is believed that it was recorded in the western saloon ""Two Bulls"" in Kansas. The phonograph type invented by Thomas Edison was on 18 July 1877. It used phonograph cylinders as a recording medium. In 1888, Emile Berliner patented his gramophone which used a flat disk – a gramophone record. At first, both mediums were used, but by 1910 the disk replaced the cylinder as the most popular recording medium. (Today the"
"wax records wore out quickly, and were prone to warping and cracking. In 2015, the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, in collaboration with the Library of Congress, developed a three-dimensional optical scanning system called IRENE-3D, which allowed surviving discs to be scanned and the audio to be reproduced. As of April 2015, eight recordings had been digitized and may be heard at the National Park Service website. Edison's Phonograph Doll Edison's Phonograph Doll is a children's toy doll developed by the Edison Phonograph Toy Manufacturing Company (founded by William W. Jacques and Lowell Briggs in 1887) introduced in 1890. The original"
"the late 19th and early 20th centuries led to the creation of a number of songs aimed at children. These included 'Ten little fingers and ten little toes' by Ira Shuster and Edward G. Nelson and 'School Days' (1907) by Gus Edwards and Will Cobb. Perhaps the best remembered now is ""Teddy Bears' Picnic"", with lyrics by Jimmy Kennedy in 1932 and the tune by British composer John William Bratton was from 1907. Recordings for children were intertwined with recorded music for as long as it has existed as a medium. The first words ever recorded (in 1860 by Édouard-Léon"
"and to their children, and the children learned to sing and harmonize together. Karl was said to be able to sing harmony before he could talk and became a boy soloist in the Lutheran Church choir. Matt was enamored of Thomas Edison's new phonographic technology and used wax cylinders to record his children singing. After leaving his job at the woolen mill, he sold Edison phonographs and was known as ""the Edison man,"" until radio displaced phonographs in most homes. After Karl taught himself to play the ukulele, he and Jack began singing together, as young teens, for friends and"
"in the Tudor period. The song’s most common lyrics are: <poem style=""margin-left:24px> Little Jack Horner Sat in the corner, Eating his Christmas pie; He put in his thumb, And pulled out a plum, And said, ""What a good boy am I!""</poem> It was first documented in full in the nursery rhyme collection ""Mother Goose's melody, or, Sonnets for the cradle"", which may date from 1765, although the earliest surviving English edition is from 1791. The melody commonly associated with the rhyme was first recorded by the composer and nursery rhyme collector James William Elliott in his ""National Nursery Rhymes and"
"by 1949 only four remained as ""A fifth cylinder, on which was recorded the translation of the songs, was broken some time ago"". Upon hearing her own performance, Smith had cried ""My poor race. What have I done"", she believed the voice to be that of her mother. The recording of Smith's songs was the subject of a 1998 song by Australian folk singer Bruce Watson, ""The Man and the Woman and the Edison Phonograph"". Watson is the great grandson of Horace Watson, who recorded Fanny in 1903. A photograph of Fanny Cochrane Smith and Horace Watson is displayed in"
"the original 1877 recording. Wax cylinder recordings made by 19th century media legends such as P. T. Barnum and Shakespearean actor Edwin Booth are amongst the earliest verified recordings by the famous that have survived to the present. Alexander Graham Bell and his two associates took Edison's tinfoil phonograph and modified it considerably to make it reproduce sound from wax instead of tinfoil. They began their work at Bell's Volta Laboratory in Washington, D. C., in 1879, and continued until they were granted basic patents in 1886 for recording in wax. Although Edison had invented the phonograph in 1877 the"
"reproducing the recorded sound. In early acoustic phonographs, the stylus vibrated a diaphragm which produced sound waves which were coupled to the open air through a flaring horn, or directly to the listener's ears through stethoscope-type earphones. The phonograph was invented in 1877 by Thomas Edison. While other inventors had produced devices that could record sounds, Edison's phonograph was the first to be able to reproduce the recorded sound. His phonograph originally recorded sound onto a tinfoil sheet wrapped around a rotating cylinder. A stylus responding to sound vibrations produced an up and down or hill-and-dale groove in the foil."
"the most substantial results. The phonograph, invented by Thomas Edison in 1877, could both record sound and play it back. The earliest type of phonograph sold recorded on a thin sheet of tinfoil wrapped around a grooved metal cylinder. A stylus connected to a sound-vibrated diaphragm indented the foil into the groove as the cylinder rotated. The stylus vibration was at a right angle to the recording surface, so the depth of the indentation varied with the audio-frequency changes in air pressure that carried the sound. This arrangement is known as vertical or ""hill-and-dale"" recording. The sound could be played"
"my voice too loud if I wanted anything approximating to a clear reproduction; that was all. When it was played over to me and I heard my own voice for the first time, one or two friends who were present said that it sounded rather like mine; others declared that they would never have recognised it. I daresay both opinions were correct."" Edison's early phonographs recorded onto a thin sheet of metal, normally tinfoil, which was temporarily wrapped around a helically grooved cylinder mounted on a correspondingly threaded rod supported by plain and threaded bearings. While the cylinder was rotated"
"were written and sold as single sheet broadsides. British folk groups, such as Fairport Convention, have drawn heavily from these ballads. In the mid-16th century nursery rhymes begin to be recorded in English plays, and the most popular date from the 17th and 18th centuries. The first English collections, ""Tommy Thumb's Song Book"" and a sequel, ""Tommy Thumb's Pretty Song Book"", were published before 1744. John Newbery's compilation of English rhymes, ""Mother Goose's Melody, or, Sonnets for the Cradle"" (London, c. 1765), is the first record we have of many classic rhymes, still in use today. The 19th-century historian James"
"scene in the Catherine Cookson novel (and the 1998 Festival Film and Television motion picture production) ""The Round Tower"". The Children's Hour (poem) ""The Children's Hour"" is a poem by American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, first published in the September 1860 edition of ""The Atlantic Monthly."" The poem describes the poet's idyllic family life with his own three daughters, Alice, Edith, and Anne Allegra: ""grave Alice, and laughing Allegra, and Edith with golden hair."" As the darkness begins to fall, the narrator of the poem (Longfellow himself) is sitting in his study and hears his daughters in the room above."
"introduced the phonograph to London in a press conference, including the playing of a piano and cornet recording of Arthur Sullivan's ""The Lost Chord"", one of the first recordings of music ever made. A series of parties followed, introducing the phonograph to members of society at ""Little Menlo"". Sullivan was invited to one of these on 5 October 1888. After dinner, he recorded a speech to be sent to Thomas Edison, saying, in part: George Gouraud made several recordings of contemporaries, such as In 1896 Gouraud created a scandal in Niagara, meeting the Chinese viceroy Li Hongzhang (1823–1901), unfortunately kissing"